False Confessions Expert Witness

Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch provides consultation and/or testimony in cases where the defendant has recanted a confession. He can assist attorneys if a client confessed, and they are challenging the confession in a suppression hearing and/or at trial.

Services

False Confessions Expert Alan Hirsch can assist in any of the following ways:

* Reviewing the case file and providing a thorough evaluation of the case, including: 1) background information about false confessions; 2) an assessment of the reliability of the defendant's confession; and 3) suggestions for challenging it, e.g., lines of cross-examination of the officers who interrogated the defendant.

* Testifying at the suppression hearing and/or trial.

* Assisting in the drafting of motions related to the confession, e.g., suppression motions and motions pertaining to the admissibility of my testimony.

Litigation Support Services

Alan Hirsch provides consultation and/or testimony in cases where the defendant has recanted a confession.

Areas of Expertise

Profile

False Confessions Expert Alan Hirsch is an attorney, professor, writer, and trial consultant who has spent three decades doing work related to the justice system. During the last decade, much of that work has involved false confessions and criminal interrogations -- studying this subject, writing about it, starting and operating the first website devoted to it, and serving as an expert consultant and witness. I have been retained as a consultant in more than 100 cases and given expert testimony in state courts in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.